From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Network Services

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Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

- Now you've got DFS deployed, you've got your replicas in for your different namespaces so that you are geographically dispersed. You have your DFS target folders with DFS target replicas setup in your environment, and everything seems to be working fine. Now you either want to go out and you want to look at the current health of the environment. Or maybe a user has complained that something appears to be slow, or they connected to a server yesterday and files were there and they made changes and they connected today and things aren't there, see things don't seem to be correct or right. So now we want to do a little bit of testing on the distributed file system to ensure that replication is occurring correctly. And also just to get a general health of what our DFS environment looks like. So in looking at this, we have a couple of tools, that we can use. We have a couple of command line tools that we can use. We also have some graphical tools we can use to troubleshoot DFS. So in this…

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